Author: Herbert Allen Gile
Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com
Keywords: china, civilization
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2010-01-17
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1604441062
ISBN-13: 9781604441062

The aim of this work is to suggest a rough outline of Chinese civilization from the earliest times down to the near present period of rapid and startling transition. It has been written, primarily, for readers who wish to expand their world view and knowledge on China’s civilization in the hope that it may succeed in alluring them to a wider and more methodical research.

Author: Louisa May Alcott
Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com
Keywords: men, little
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2010-02-28
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1604441283
ISBN-13: 9781604441284

Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. Little Men tells the story of Jo Bhaer and the children at Plumfield Estate School. The novel has been adapted to a film and a 1997 television series. Little Men follows the life of Jo Bhaer and the students who live and learn at the Plumfield Estate School that she runs with her husband, Professor Bhaer. The mischievous children, whom she loves and cares for as her own, learn valuable lessons as they become proper gentlemen and ladies. We also get cameo appearances o

Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com
Keywords: room, jacob
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2010-02-22
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1604441321
ISBN-13: 9781604441321

Set in pre-war England, the novel begins in Jacob’s childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge, and then into adulthood. The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob’s life, including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited young art student Florinda, with whom he has an affair. His time in London forms a large part of the story, though towards the end of the novel he travels to Italy, then Greece. Jacob eventually dies in the war and in lieu of a description of the death scene, Woolf describes the empty room that he

Author: Elizabeth Von Arnim
Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com
Keywords: april, enchanted
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 2010-02-27
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1604441402
ISBN-13: 9781604441406

The Enchanted April is a 1922 novel by Elizabeth von Arnim. It was made into an RKO Radio movie in 1935, and a second adaptation, directed by Mike Newell, was released in 1992. The 1992 release received several Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. A Tony Award-nominated stage play by Matthew Barber, also adapted from the novel, was presented on Broadway in 2003. Elizabeth von Arnim’s novel tells the story of four dissimilar women in 1920s England who leave their damp and rainy environs to go on a holiday to a secluded coastal castle in Italy. Mrs Arbuthnot and Mrs Wilkins, who

Author: L. M. Montgomery
Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com
Keywords: orchard, kilmeny
Number of Pages: 146
Published: 2010-07-20
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1604441089
ISBN-13: 9781604441086

Kilmeny of the Orchard is a novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It is the story of a young man named Eric Marshall who goes to teach a school on Prince Edward Island and meets a mute girl that has perfect hearing named Kilmeny. He sees her when he is walking in the woods and hears her playing the violin. He visits her for a long time until he falls in love with her. When he proposes she rejects him, even though she loves him in return, believing that her disability will only hinder his life if they were married, despite his protests that it wouldn’t matter at all. Meanwhile, Eric’s good

Author: Vahan M. Kurkjian
Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com
Keywords: armenia, history
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 2008-03-29
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 1604440120
ISBN-13: 9781604440126

The volume is an easy reading and a must for the beginner student and interested party of the history of Armenia as well as for those more familiar with Armenian and its history. The author, an expert on Armenian history, has masterfully covered all aspects of the Armenian history such as Armenian literature, Armenian Church, the history of Armenian old and modern language, architecture, sculpture, music etc. along with all the historical events, starting from the beginning of the human civilization and that of Armenian one to the modern era of Armenia

Author: Harriet Ann Jacobs
Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com
Keywords: girl, slave, life, incidents
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2010-01-06
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1604440988
ISBN-13: 9781604440980

Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl is considered a slave narrative as well as an example of feminist literature. Harriet Jacobs began composing Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl while living and working at Idlewild, Willis’s home on the Hudson River. Jacobs’s autobiographical accounts were first published in serial form in the New York Tribune, a newspaper owned and edited by abolitionist Horace Greeley. Her reports of sexual abuse were considered too shocking for the average newspaper reader of the day, and the paper ceased publishing her account before its completion. The